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>773. About five o’clock the nest morning we opened Queen
TUeHay-.s. chariotte’ s Sound, and about feven we faw three flakes
rifing from the fouth end of the Motu-Jro, where a Uppah,
or ftrong. hold of the natives, was fituated, which is defenb-
ed in Lieutenant Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour*. We
immediately conceived that they were fignals made by
Europeans,, and probably by our friends in the Adventure;
and upon firing feme four-pounders, had the pleafure o
being anfwered out of the Ship Cove, oppofite the tfland,.
Towards noon we could difcern our old confort at anchor;
and foon after were met by feveral of her officers, who
brought us a prefent of freffi fife, and gave us an account
of what had happened to them after our reparation. In
the afternoon it fell: calm, fo that we were obliged to be
towed into the cove, where we anchored at feven in the-
evening In the mean time Captain Furneaus came on
board, and teftified his fetisfaftion at rejoining us, by a,
falute of thirteen guns, which our people cheerfully returned
Thofe who have been in fituatioris fimilar to.
ours may form an adequate idea of the reciprocal pleafure’whieh
this meeting produced.. It was heightened on,
both fides, by the recent impreffions of accumulated dangers
to which our feparate eourfes had expofed us, and:
which under Providence we had happily efcaged-
* See Hawkefwortb’ s Compilation, vol. IL P- 395> 4° ° -
The Adventure, after lofing our company, had continued may.
her courfe to the northward of us, between the latitudes
of s ° ° an<i 54° fouth, experiencing very heavy gales
from the weftward during the whole time. On the 28th
of February, being in about i'2 2° of longitude weft from
Greenwich, Captain Furneaux thought it advifeable gradually
to , defcend into the latitude of Diemen s Land, or
the extremity of New Holland, difcovered by Abel Janffen
Tafman in November 1642. On the 9th of March he fell
iD with the S. W. part of this coaft, and running along its
fouthern extremity, came to an anchor on the 11 th in the
.afternoon, in a bay on the eaft fide, which he called Adventure
Bay, and which is probably the feme where Tafman
lay at anchor, diftinguilhed by the name of Frederick
Henry Bay. The fouthern extremities of this coaft confuted
of large broken mafles of barren and blackiffi rocks,
refembling the extreme points of the African and American
continents. The land round the bay role in fendy
hillocks, of which the innermoft were covered with various
forts of trees, rather remote from each other, and
without any broffi-wood. They alfo found a lake of
freffi water on the Weft fide, covered with great flocks of
wild-ducks and other aquatic fowls. Several iflands in
the offing to the N E. along ffiore, were of a moderate
height, and likewife covered with wood. Tafman probably
took them for one great ifland, which in his charts
C c 2 bears